Since mulliganning in a 100-card is pretty boring, this is the way we go : We drqw the first 7 cards then choose any number of cards in hand, which we put on the bottom of the library. Then we draw that many cards.
This replaces the "free" mulligan," additionnal mulligan follow the 6-5-4... chain.

It allows having less expensive spells in hand so that the games are closer.

We draw the first 7 cards then choose any number of cards in hand, which we put on the bottom of the library. Then we draw that many cards.This replaces the "free" mulligan," additionnal mulligan follow the 6-5-4... chain.

Worst idea I've ever heard in terms of mulligans. Stop doing this immediately. The reason my playgroup does basically unlimited mulligans is because (a) we hate combo and nobody plays that shit and (b) nobody wants to get screwed over. Mulligans are not Read the Runes for X turn 0...even if your playgroup does obey (a) In terms of your rules, basically everyone mulligans every time, right? That's not MTG that's worse than goldfishing. Seriously just use unlimited mulligans for 0, 1, 6 or 7 land hands. Should work wonderfully.

Worst idea I've ever heard in terms of mulligans. Stop doing this immediately. The reason my playgroup does basically unlimited mulligans is because (a) we hate combo and nobody plays that shit and (b) nobody wants to get screwed over. Mulligans are not Read the Runes for X turn 0...even if your playgroup does obey (a) In terms of your rules, basically everyone mulligans every time, right? That's not MTG that's worse than goldfishing. Seriously just use unlimited mulligans for 0, 1, 6 or 7 land hands. Should work wonderfully.

I agree it's a bad idea but I think he's doing it for convenience's sake. What you're proposing doesn't solve his problem of 4 people sitting there while 1 is still shuffling his deck. The best solution IMHO is to just skip that person's turn while he shuffles and just say he can drop a land and one drop but no attacking(sorry Uktabi Drake). In EDH, no one is gonna waste a card to kill a one drop on turn 1 or 2.

We draw the first 7 cards then choose any number of cards in hand, which we put on the bottom of the library. Then we draw that many cards.This replaces the "free" mulligan," additionnal mulligan follow the 6-5-4... chain.

Worst idea I've ever heard in terms of mulligans. Stop doing this immediately. The reason my playgroup does basically unlimited mulligans is because (a) we hate combo and nobody plays that shit and (b) nobody wants to get screwed over. Mulligans are not Read the Runes for X turn 0...even if your playgroup does obey (a) In terms of your rules, basically everyone mulligans every time, right? That's not MTG that's worse than goldfishing. Seriously just use unlimited mulligans for 0, 1, 6 or 7 land hands. Should work wonderfully.

just use unlimited mulligans for 0, 1, 6 or 7 land hands. Should work wonderfully.

Unlimited mulligans also seems overpowered...

Not if everyone isn't playing combo and it's only when you have 0, 1, 6 or 7 lands in your opening hand. Obviously inapplicable to tournament environments where mulligans help equalize power levels and everyone loves combo. And yes, this is to help out people who don't shuffle well and to remove the bit of "you auto-lose this game" probability that always occurs. I'm not in favor of punishing horrible shufflers...ever since Rich Shay fucked up the sleeves of my unproxied vintage deck when I played against him I've hated anyone who gets all anal about shuffling. If you're careful and it means it takes longer I'll wait...rather see the minty-ness of your foily sol ring and such maintained than get all anal about magic. Actually, I'd rather do about anything other than get anal about mtg especially in casual. The read the runes turn 0, however, isn't being anal it's blatantly violating the initial construction of the game.

the biggest Highlander (not EDH only Highlander) cup in germany use also this kind of mulligan. You have ur normal mulligan and additionally u can choose to use the specialmulligan one time. (for example if u just go to 5 cards, u can use the special mulligan instead of going on 4 cards).